Upton Sinclair
Subtitle: California socialist, celebrity intellectual
By: Lauren Coodley
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780803243828
Subjects: American Novelists; Investigative reporting; Social reformers; Biography; Social change; History
Description: Reveals Upton Sinclair's role as a social, political, and cultural reformer who was also a writer, filmmaker, women's rights advocate, and health pioneer, providing a new perspective on the activist's productive life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Southern gentlemen drank, 1878-1892; title: Making real men of our boys, 1893-1904; title: Good health and how we won it, l905-1915; title: Singing jailbirds, 1916-1927; title: How I ran for governor, 1928-1939; title: World's end, 1940-1949; title: A lifetime in letters, 1950-1968; title: Afterword: A world to win, 1969-2011; title: Appendix A: Upton Sinclair's women friends; title: Appendix B: Recommended readings.